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Topic: Rocks

Fossilised tunnels of ancient marine worms point to a time when Jaisalmer was part of oceanic environment

Grooves in rock formations of Jaisalmer are believed to be trails of marine worms that once wriggled along ocean floor, says study by scientists at Jodhpur's Jai Narain Vyas University.

Scientists discover new type of basalt rock, formed nearly 50 million years ago, on ocean floor

The basaltic rock found beneath the ocean floor of the Amami Sankaku Basin in the Japanese Sea is distinct from other known rocks both in its chemical and mineral makeup.

What lies beneath the JNU campus in Delhi

In ‘JNU Stories’, Mudit Trivedi writes about the archaeological landscape of the JNU campus and the 100,000-year-old historical finds in it.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.